Example sentences of "[vb past] him [conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital . |
| 2 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 3 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 4 | Eventually they murdered him because they disliked him so much . |
| 5 | They heard him before they saw him . |
| 6 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 7 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 8 | Tommy , inset left , killed him when they thought he owned them £25 . |
| 9 | The Conventional Rules of Duty bound him as they bound his subjects . |
| 10 | Thom picked up two oranges from the gutter but someone saw him and they took him to Derby Street police station and he got the sack from the police . |
| 11 | Exactly what they 've done , they saw him and they suspended him . |
| 12 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 13 | They trusted him because they believed his work was guaranteed by FIMBRA , the financial watchdog body based in London . |